Welcome to Episode 309 of Live Happy Now.

April is National Stress Awareness Month, and as you might be aware, we're a little bit more stressed out than we used to be.

I'm your host, Paula Phelps, and today we're talking with Dr. Dravon James, an author, host of everyday piece on Unity Radio,

and an inspirational speaker who has made

it her life purpose to help others tap into their natural ability to transform their lives.

She's here to talk about how we can all change our lives for the better by changing our

approach to stress.

Dravonne, welcome to Live Happy Now.

Thank you for having me.

I'm happy to be here.

Well, we are talking about stress, which is something I think we all know about,

but you are kind of an expert in it.

So that's what makes you different than the rest of us.

So I was really curious to begin with how you became so interested in the topic of stress.

I have been working in health care for 31 years. I've been a pharmacist for 31 years.

And I would like to say that it started there, but it didn't. I had a very stressful childhood.

And I think I've always been looking for ways. It's so funny, when I was 17 years old, I began a journey for the solution to never have any problems ever again after reading Norman Vincent Peel's book, The Power of Positive Thinking.

Yeah. And I never discovered that. But what I did discover is that everything that seems like a challenge, even in it is,

but has some utility to it. And I thought that was fascinating. It's interesting that you would come to

it at such a young age and you've made it this whole mission that you're on and have done some

incredible things along the way and still have

many things that you're doing. Do you know what it is that really resonated with you in being

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